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Title: American quarterly of roentgenology
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Nuclear Medicine Radiography Radiology Radiology
Publisher: Pittsburgh : American Roentgen Ray Society
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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rdia, often become less before the goitre diminishes visibly,indicates that first of all the toxine production in the thyroidgland is suppressed, or at least minimized. How far the sym-pathetic nerve system is involved at the same time cannot beanswered satisfactorily at present. A large number of emi-nent investigators have devoted much time to these questionsand some interesting facts were revealed, but nothing definiteas to the etiological factors has been brought forth so far.The fundamental question will resolve itself in a metabolicproblem, as many signs indicate. The cachexia strumipriva, IM American Quarterly of Roentgenology the Cretinism and other general symptoms of degenerationafter total thyroidectomy in some individuals demonstrate thatthe thyroid gland has an important function, the destruction ofwhich is apt to take its revenge. What is this function andhow is it altered in Basedows disease? , On the whole it mustbe ^\ a disvirulizing nature. Its disturbance by disthy-
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Fig. 9—Lateral exposure through diaphragm of author, in a case of moderateBasedows disease; after the twelfth exposure, as a rule the front is exposedthree minutes and each side for one minute. roidosis. over- and under-thyroidosis must therefore deter-mine the different types of reaction. It is most interesting also to observe the mutual relations toother organs and their various affections, and their influenceon the economy of the bodv, as for instance in the thymus. Beck: Ordinary and Exophthalmic Goitre L05 (See German translation of my text-book on Thoracic Surgery,page 30? and 309.) The relations to tuberculosis I havetouched by presenting a tuberculous patient showing exoph-thalmus as well as enlargement of the thyroid, tachycardia andtremor, to the New York German Medical Society, lime, 1908.(See also How is exophthalmus, tachycardia and tremor fol-lowing extirpation of the tuberculous glands of the neck tobe explained? Archives of diagnosis, October, 1008.) Theelements whic

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